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30 October 1975

MEMORANDUM FOR ‘THE RECORD

SUBJECT: Chief, toi Meeting with Mr. Paul Wallach, Chief
oe ; Counsel of Senate Select’ Committee on Intel-_
ligence

This meeting occurred on “Wednesday, 29 October. 1975
as a result of concern on the.part of Senate Select _
Committee officers that the Agency:was not forthcoming
with file material related to the Lee Harvey Oswald case,
i.e., ‘the assassination of President. Kennedy. The
following points ' were made by ‘the principals as indicated.

‘Chief, CI - ‘To ‘open ‘the: meeting ‘Mr. ‘Kalaris made it.clear
that the Agency is anxious: to demonstrate that we have
nothing to hide and that all pertinent material was made
available to the Warren Commission. He added that the
procedure for making material available to the Senate
Staff posed certain problems with regard to sources,

methods and liaison, which were delaying the turnover of

bo material. He then presented several examples of the
sanitization process in-which cables. taken directly from
the 201 file were edited so that all evidence of: source,

. method and liaison information was removed.

Chief Counsel.- As an opening reply Mr. Wallach stated
that his position was that he considered that the Senate
Committee should have the same access as the Rockefeller
Commission. He added that in his discussions with several
senators on his committee they had mentioned reports that
a Rockefeller reviewing official by the name of Belin who
had had access to the original file,had appeared on several
talk shows and was going to write a book based on his”
review of Agency holdings on the’ Oswald case.

Chief, cI - Mr. Kalaris then pointed out “that there were
certain particularly sensitive aspects of the material
which could not be released for use outside of the building.

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He gave two examples. of this. One was the fact that the:
Mexican Government security liaisoni contact on the case. - |
was the (current_President of Mexico. He said, and Mr.
Wallach agreed, this was obviously a matter which had to.

be. protected. The second case was the \Mexican Government

: pénetration of the Cuban Embassy. Again Mr. Wallach ’

agreed.

Chief, CI - Mr. Kalaris then suggested that the answer ae
might very well be for the Senate Committee review officers

. to work with ‘the. original file with thé exception of those

particularly sensitive items which ‘would either be steri-
lized or summarized. Mr. Kalaris added that to-establish
the sensitivity of these items he would be willing for

the sterilizations/summarizations to be spot checked against
the originals by the Senate reviewers.

Chief Counsel - Mr. Wallach - conferred with his colleagues
and then agreed that this would be acceptable. He did
inquire as to approximately how many such items there would
be. He was informed by Mr. Kalaris that it was somewhat
difficult to access but that there should not be more than
100 such items.

‘Chief Counsel - Mr. Wallach commented that it would be

necessary for his people to take notes, but he would agree
that. these notes not be taken from the building. The.
purpose of the notes is.simply to allow the reviewers. to
keep track of where they have been and what they have seen. —
It was agreed at a minimum that their notes would be ‘checked
with us.

Chief, cI - At this point Mr. Kalaris called Mr. Blee and

‘ requested approval of the above procedure. Mr. Blee

concurred.

Chief Counsel - Mr. Wallach commented that his people would
tab those sterilized or summarized items which they wanted
to discuss and we would confer with them on those points.


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_ three files. of other agency docum
‘notes for review.” It:

Comment

Mr. Wallach nentioned: ‘that. Mre » Proctor: (DDI) is a
family. friend and he wanted to. make. contact | by Phone.

At. the ‘end. of. ‘the. day" the Yevi

as agreed: the
Monday to start reviewing files. and .that‘we- would have.
at least 15. volumes. ready. for them," “Mrv Wallach was to”
call on Friday to confirm our teadiness.

Robert (. Wali
Deputy: Chief, CI/OG

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SA/DDO- oo — ; .
‘Review Staff - Walt: Elder-


